Facing-tile.



Patented luly I6, |90l.

H. RUSENBUSCH.

F AC l N G T I L E.

(Application med Apr. 25, 19m.)

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l Frio-nr ATnN'r HEINRICH Rjos'ENBUscH, oF MUNICH, GERMANY,

FACING-TILE SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters :Patent No. 678,425, dated July 16, 3.951. Application filed April 25, 1901. Serial No. 57,488. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom zit/may concern.-

Be it known that I, I-InINRIcH-ROSENBUSCH,

'a citizen of Germany, residing at Munich, in

the Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Facing- Tiles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention', such as will enable others skilled in .the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to tiles or slabs for facing t-he Walls, ceilings, doors, and other parts of buildings tobe used as a substitute for plaster or stucco or other facing ordinarily employed.

The object of the invention is to provide slabs or tiles which may readily be put in place and assembled and which at the same time will be securely held in place when so assembled.

With this object in view my invention consistsin a tile orslab made from cement,` earthenware, stone, or the like and which is so formed or constructed that it can bereadily hung in or attached to a wire fabric or lattice-Work or the like in any position, so that when a sucient number have been put in place they will form a continu'ousfunbroken wall, ceiling, flooring, or the like without requiring any auxiliary fastening means-such as nails, hooks, screws, or the like--and which will not require the arrangement of rabbets, grooves, springs, perforations, studs, or similar securing arrangements or devices.

Slabs or tiles made in accordance with myAV invention may be used in a great variety of ways-such as, for example, for flooring, (in a ,horizontal p0sition,) for roofing, (ina slanting posit-ion,) for the facing of inner and outer walls, (arranged vertically or in an inclined positiom) for ceilings', (suspended horizontally,) and for vaults, in which'latter case they may be arranged so as to gradually pass from a vertical to an inclined and finally to a horizontal position.

In the drawings accompanying this specification I have represented a tile embodying my invention in its preferred formz f In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig.` 2 a rear elevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical central section, of suchnmtile or facing-slab. Fig. 4 represents a portion 'of a wall formed from such facing-tiles in elevation; and Fig. 5 represents avertical section of said wall on line A B, Fig. 4. A

As seen from the drawings, the tile or slab A is of polygonal shape-in the present case hexagonal--and is provided at its rough rear face with a suspending-hook o, which projects out preferably from the middle portion of the upper edge, as shown. The upper and lower triangular edges ofthe tile A are beveled in opposite directions at d and e, as shown, the beveled surfaces in the present case being substantially parallel. The tile is, moreover, provided with a nose b above the hook a and extending upwardl.)Y from the apex of the upper triangular beveled edge d, theinner plane surface b' of said nose being ypreferably in line with the rear surface of the tile and forming an acute angle with the upperbeveled edge d, as shown.

This facing-tile may be used as follows: The Wall or othersurface ofthe building which isto be faced is first provided with a supporting-skeleton of wire fabrieor, if'A desired, of lathwork, such as is usually employed as a preliminary step in the facingof Walls andV the like. This supportingskeleton or framework o, Figs. 4 ando, should be made in dimensions and` proportions in such away as to n' harmonize with the dimensions of the facingtiles, so as to provide the proper supports for the supporting-hooks or suspending-hooks a.

at the proper points consistent with permitting the tiles to lit closely together andtheir faces or front surfaces to form one continuous unbroken surface. `has already been prepared which does not/ correspond to the dimensions of the tiles the' In case al frameWor-k'/ same must be first provided with the proper supports by arranging thereon wires or laths at the properpoints. is ready, thejtiles or slabs A are mounted onv the same by suspending them with the hooks a from thewires or laths of the frame.. VWhen, thus hung in piace, the lower beveled edges@ of each tile, which forms an acute angle'with the rear face of the. said tile, wiilhitsnugly into the acute angular recess formedbetween the nose b and the upper bevelrd, whereby a.,

When the frameworkl displacement of the front or of the rear is eil?" fectually prevented, and when all of the ltil/es o,have beenplaced in `position on the wall Cpr other portion of tbe building they will pruetienllyfornl one rigid continuous surface, all

dangerof e seperate tile felling out ijioing bus practically avoided.

It will be not-ed ahnt the ein' l of forms a stop for the rom' surface ci? adjoining tiles just above the tile o belongs. The tiles are thus eli, e clamped in positiomes above stated.,

During or after the operation of assembling the tiles the Well or facing vformed :from tbeee tiles may be plastered from die rem', so es 'to form a furtbersupport, the thicknees of which is indicated by the (lovend-desu lines in Fig. 5.

Vliet I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent ot" the United Sta-tes, is@

1, A facing tile or slab having oppositely and parallel beveled upper and lower edges and provided with e suspendingliook et its upper edge, end :L nose or stop extending above the said upper edge, the out-er eurfnoe of the nose and the upperbeveled edge orn1- ing au :meute angle with tbe rear fuee of the tile or slab.

2. A facing slab or tile buviug upper and lower oppositely and painllel beveled edges and. provided with a, suspending-hook, and a stop or nose nl; its upper edge, the front of :suini nose being inline with the rem' surface of :im rile and forming :in nente :ingle with upper beveled edge, while tbe lower bevelen. edge also forms mi acuto angle with the rear fece of the tile or Slob.

3. A. facing sieb or tile hevinfr n lower beveled edge of triangular shape wnieli forme :in leute angie with the rear face. and un upper triangular bevolededge inclined in nn oppo'- site direction, in combination with e suspending-hook and e nose extending from the apex of the upper beveled edge, the outer face of 4o seid nose forming an toute 'ngle with the upper beveled edge.

In testimony whereof I ufix in v siglmture in presence of two witnesses.

HEINRICH ROSENDUSCU. "Witnesses:

A Lener WEICKMAN, BERNHARD ALGCICL 

